A Black Sail by Rich Zahradnik, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2016

New on the Mystery Bookshelf during October 2016 …

A Black Sail by Rich Zahradnik, A Coleridge Taylor Mystery (3rd in series)

Publisher: Camel Press

  

On the eve of the U.S. Bicentennial, newsman Coleridge Taylor is covering Operation Sail. New York Harbor is teeming with tall ships from all over the world. While enjoying the spectacle, Taylor is still a police reporter. He wants to cover real stories, not fluff, and gritty New York City still has plenty of those in July of 1976.

One surfaces right in front of him when a housewife is fished out of the harbor wearing bricks of heroin, inferior stuff users have been rejecting for China White, peddled by the Chinatown gangs. Convinced he's stumbled upon a drug war between the Italian Mafia and a Chinese tong, Taylor is on fire once more. But as he blazes forward, flanked by his new girlfriend, ex-cop Samantha Callahan, his precious story grows ever more twisted and deadly. In his reckless search for the truth, he rattles New York's major drug cartels. If he solves the mystery, he may end up like his victim — in a watery grave.

— A Black Sail by Rich Zahradnik

To see more new paperback titles scheduled to be published this month, visit The Mystery Bookshelf for October 2016. For new hardcover titles, visit New Mysteries where for a list of October 2016 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers is provided.